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Brandenburg's largest lake is being created from the former Cottbus-Nord open-cast lignite mine. Flooding with Spree water is a landscape transformation of superlatives. This year, the Cottbus Baltic Sea will be showing itself for the first time with a closed body of water. Now the struggle for the use of the future local recreation area begins. More documentaries in the playlist: • All documentaries & reports Even more documentaries in the ARD media library: https://1.ard.de/dokus The Baltic Sea residents have been waiting for this moment for years. In 2024, there was more flood water from the Spree than ever before, so that Brandenburg's largest lake will be visible for the first time in its gigantic dimensions. With a closed body of water of almost 20 square kilometers! This raises hopes. Previously, five dry years caused sluggish flooding, dangerous landslides and erosion caused severe setbacks in the shore design of the post-mining lake. Now the energy company LEAG, the city of Cottbus and the Baltic Sea communities are wrangling over the future direction of the lake. How can plans for local recreation and the increasing energetic use of the lake be realized without mutual interference? Should the Cottbus Baltic Sea become an additional water reservoir for the dry Spree catchment area? However, that would affect tourism projects. The 6th film in the long-term documentation of the rbb studio Cottbus. Film by Maren Schibilsky First broadcast 09.10.2024/rbb Image: Collage: rbb/IMAGO #balticsea #brandenburg #flooding #opencast mining #coal phase-out